[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition

[Colin Humphrey]

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oK, I'm a bit lost about what you're trying to do.
>>

I'll outline things a bit more:

It was my original intention to have an old 98se machine dual partitioned so 
that I can have ubuntu LTS 6.06 as a server, on this server I wanted to 
upload files from a winxp machine.  Partitioning the old machine was fine, 
downloading the iso image was also fine.  The initial install went through 
o.k. but no ethernet was detected [the actual ethernet device itself].

Also DHCP failed.  After DHCP failed I was given an option where I could 
assign/choose the network addresses myself.  I did this but it was redundant 
as the ethernet test failed.  Thus when I tried to ping the ubuntu machine 
either under the hostname or the ip address both attempts failed.


>>
If the DHCP
step in the setting up networking is failing during boot up this is
probably because there either isn't a DHCP server on the network or
because the DHCP server isn't working properly (esp. if the same
symptoms are seen on a couple of different machines).
>>

Regarding DHCP, to infer from what you stated above there are two possible 
problems; (1) - No  DHCP Server/computer was detected on the network [This 
is true because I don't have another machine acting as a DHCP server]. (2) 
Could there be a problem with the installation disk itself?


>>
When you say there was no ethernet detection do you mean that the
ethernet device wasn't detected or that it didn't detect the settings
for the network? You can tell this by running 'ifconfig'
>>

I mean that the device wasn't detected

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Would it be possible to schedule an informal irc discussion?

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